Winter Travels: Belize

Between November and January I was on the go. I went to Arizona, Florida, Belize, Utah, and Japan. All of which were GREAT trips. I Love collecting stamps in my passport, and this past year (2011) I got 4! That's a pretty good year I think.

I went to Belize to celebrate and video my childhood best-friend's wedding. I didn't take many pictures, with a still camera at least... and so most of these are borrowed from other's (iincluding a professional or two from her photographers.

One day we went snorkeling, and I saw more than I ever have! Got to swim with nurse sharks, huge sting rays, sea turtles, many fishies, and an electric-green 6-foot-long eel (This was the coolest... something about the way it swam through the water just like a giant snake... super eerie!)

Moslty, it was awesome just to spend some time with my Houston favorites. I've been lucky enough to stay friends with some of these ladies, and they are just quality.

I didn't get many still shots, but I did get some video... I know I post this kind of stuff on my Purdy Birdy Video Blog, but sometimes it belongs here too.



Great trip!

Valentine's Party

There are many reasons to have a Valentine's party... celebrate love, date night, fun with friends and family, excuse to finally use some of the stuff I've been pinning for games and foods... SO, we had one.

I got no good pictures on my phone...

We had plenty of desserts to munch on

Including sweetie pie pops and Love Potion... with a "Caution: will result in hot, passionate, romance..."

We played some minute-to-win-it which I highly recommend and a question/answer game just like "the newly wed game"... couple's style for a grand prize date night to baskin robbins.

My cousin-in-law Allison got much better pictures and even some video of the evening... of her trying to knock 2 oranges into a hula hoop on the ground with nothing but a banana hanging from her waist. Pretty great, and can be seen HERE.

The contestants: "I LOVE YOU MORE THAN..."

...I Love my TOMS and dogs!

...Cafe Rio!

...Lint loves your belly button.

and...

... The soon to be released Ipad 3!

Again, didn't get good pictures, but that can mean a few things, one... I was too lazy, or two... the night was just so fun, we weren't thinking about pictures! :)

Happy Valentine's!!

"Into the Wild"

I've liked the Citi bank commercial (is that the right bank??) that uses this song with the chick rock climbing... alwasy had it stuck in my head but I only knew a few words... or more so, just the tune. So I found it and now more lyrics are stuck in my head most of the day!

Thanksgiving

We celebrated Thanksgiving twice this year. Knowing we would be out of town on actual Thanksgiving day, we did a Lubbock family dinner a little early. It was DELISH! We had the full traditional spread, plus some, and it was amazing. See here:

Thankful cheers!

Dig right in.

A little Utah Utes football action

Allison and her apple pie...mmm :)

Apple, German chocolate, Banana Cream and Pumpkin PIE

A very filling and cozy day indeed. For the calendar Thanksgiving week, we trotted off to Orlando, FL for some theme park, warm weather, swampy, family goodness. I was very pleased that the parks were decked out for Christmas, with music, fake snow, sparkly lights, and sea creatures everywhere we went.

The "Coral Reef" and a very entertaining Walrus. (Our Thanksgiving friends...)

We got to share Thanksgiving with a HUGE killer whale... you may have heard of Shamu?? Yes, well, he is beyond awesome to see in person... we saw the show a few times. One Christmas version, one not.

We filmed some of it on our phones, and I didn't edit it down so be patient until the end because the coolest jumps are there. Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

First comes Love, Then comes marriage, Then comes....

A BABY in a baby carriage!! It's true....

And we are also excited to announce that it's a BOY! Wanna see him?

The cutest fuzzy little black and white man we've ever seen. Because he is all ours. We are half way there... due April 1st...!

Denver in October

Cam had a few extra days off of school for fall break, so we decided to make the drive to Denver... Most importantly to meet this little love, Aimsley Mae:

She is amazing... well done, Porter & Michelle!!

We did as many fall friendly things as we could, including a corn maze:

"Which way, guys?!"

"Scary" was also a theme of weekend... naturally, as Halloween comes ever closer. During our walk through corn, Cam and Porter REALLY got us good....

They ran out at as yelling "Children of the Corn!!!".... super "spooky scary." More like, grown adults of the corn.

One thing Lubbock lacks in mountainous terrain... sad. So we quite enjoyed walking around these trails for a while...

Aimsley is a natural mountain woman! Next step, wrestling bears and starting camp fires with her mind.

Indo really knows how to pick the sticks that are appropriate for his size:

We carved pumpkins:

We enjoyed the quaint little town of Golden, and had a poto shoot with the street sign after filling up on pizza and salad.

And took many "smooshed" face pictures.

We even woke up one morning to this:

It was a perfect fall weekend with our friends. Not much is better in my book than cool crisp days, chilly nights, sweatshirts and jackets, carmel apples, halloween candy, pumpkin baked goods, and other comfort foods- including Cafe Rio wich we rarley get anymore, movies, Autumn hikes and new baby Aimsley- oh, and the Foulgers of course. We were sad to have to leave.

Side note- we listened to The Unbroken there and back, which we highly recommend if you have yet to read it.

Anyways, good trip. Thanks Porter & Michelle for such a "spoooky scaaaary" time. We love you guys and Colorado.

80 Years

Happy 80th birthday to our Grandpa Cal!

My grandma planned a suprise party for him, and athough I was not able to attend, with the help of my mom and family to get some footage, we put together a little tribute video of his cowboy-ness.

Here he is: